| The Big Idea | |
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| Directed by | William Beaudine |
| Written by | Ted Healy Matty Brooks |
| Starring | Ted Healy The Three Stooges Bonnie Bonnell Muriel Evans Heinie Conklin Lew Harvey Jimmy Hollywood Eddie Bartell Henry Taylor Tut Mace MGM Dancing Girls |
| Music by | L. Wolfe Gilbert |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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| Running time | 19:15 |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Big Idea is the fifth and last of five short films starring Ted Healy and His Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard) released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on May 12, 1934.
Production
Like other shorts Healy and the Stooges filmed at MGM, stock footage was utilized to fill out the 20 minutes of time. For The Big Idea, MGM used musical numbers edited out of the feature films Dancing Lady (1933), which ironically had a supporting role by Healy and a cameo by the Stooges, and Going Hollywood (1933).
This is one of the last films and the fifth and final musical-comedy short subject in which the Three Stooges appeared with longtime partner Ted Healy. By the time of the release of The Big Idea, the Three Stooges had signed a new contract with Columbia Pictures to do a series of comedy short films without Healy, beginning with Woman Haters (1934).
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- 1934 films
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer short films
- The Three Stooges films
- American black-and-white films
- 1934 musical comedy films
- American musical comedy films
- Films directed by William Beaudine
- 1930s English-language films
- 1930s American films
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